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People telling here that they can speak 10 languages while you cannot remember how to put accents in French congrats to all of you!

Italy, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary do a combinate training in Predazzo, Italy @hckosice

Haha, I can´t remember any, there obviously some words having different meaning, but nothing outragoeus for example Vedro is in SVK (Bucket) in CZE (Heat) or Topit is in SVK (drown) in CZE (stoke the fire) I know we have such problematic words mainly with other slavic countries with Poland is the most funny word Šukať/Szukat in POL it means (searching) in SVK/CZE it means doing...well,, (Fucking) I remember once when I was young and camping with my dad, we had a family of tourists from in a tent next to us screaming the whole night, Szukaj ! Szukaj ! , I almost was pissing my pants how much I laughed that night, the next morning we learned that they were just looking for some lost watches Also as I wrote it here somewhere a couple of weeks ago in you ask for cold drink "Hladna piča" but don´t say it in CZE/SVK because it means "you hungry cunt"

in 1964, 3 different venues were used for the Equestrian competitions: - Karuizawa (Chiba Prefecture) hosted the 3-Day event - the Equestrian Park in Setagaya-ku* (Tokyo) hosted the Dressage competitions - the National (Olympic) Stadium in Shinjuku-ku* (Tokyo) hosted the Show Jumping events * -ku basically means "block"... for more details, check the IOC Tokyo 1964 Official Reports #1 (page 115 and following) and #2 (page 577 and following)... https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8

Thank you guys for all answers ! It´s always great to learn about things from different cultures and habits, I would never have had the chance to learn otherwise

Why? There are two stories behind my username. Firstly, the inspiration for my username comes from a Danish comic strip named WuMo. It's a abbreviation of the surnames of the two men behind the comic strip, comedian, Mikael Wulff, and illustrator, Anders Morgenthaler. Their daily comic strip is posted here in English: https://www.gocomics.com/wumo/2019/10/05. It's mostly dark humour. Maybe you like these two: http://wumo.com/wumo/2017/11/04 http://wumo.com/wumo/2018/07/13 Secondly, I watched a lot of sumo wrestling on Eurosport when I was younger. It was so cool! When I wanted to create an account for Youtube the name Sumo was already taken, so my younger self thought, what rhymes with Sumo and then Wumo came up. I used to have the username, Mushroom5690. I have always liked Toad from Super Mario and he was a mushroom so it made sense. 5690 is the postal code for the town where I was born. However many people thought that mushroom referred to "magic mushrooms". I dropped it after that.

I do. At the moment I try to learn Chinese, or more specific, Mandarin. The course I have spend most time doing is Dutch. I also do courses in Spanish, French and Hungarian. Some other languages I consider begin learning are Russian and Polish.

Spanish and Portuguese are very similar languages. Particularly, for me it's pretty easy to understand and read Spanish. I believe that it's the same for Spanish speakers. Right @LDOG? But, of course, those languages are different and when we try to speak in Spanish, usually, we talk "Portunhol". A mix between Spanish and Portuguese Another curiosity is the different accent between Brazilian Portuguese and the Portuguese from Portugal or Angola... Sometimes I prefer to watch videos in Spanish than in Portuguese from Portugal, because it's easier to understand.

Regarding his "English knowledge", it's gonna be fun

Hazena (that other handball from a country that doesn't exist anymore) played by women in... France (Pershing Stadium near Paris) in the 20's

Yep all 5 of them

Volata a football code invented in 1928 in Mussolini 's Italy. It was a weird mix of handball (field handball then), football association and rugby. Somehow, it looks a bit like current gaelic football to me. The sport never took off.

I hate when there are songs I already know because I never know where to place them

@hckosice In Poland, 6-7 years ago, a match was played in the snow. The first half was played on relatively green turf, and the second was dancing in the snow with the ball in the background. 1 half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRbqIkPq2I 2 half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-HNCqFpIBg

Having nothing to do this evening...TISC votes send already yesterday so I´m watching some weird videos and in some nostalgia, I am rewatching the last moments of Czechoslovakian sport. 17th November 1993, Bruxelles Last round of the FIFA 1994 USA World Cup Qualification, Belgium was hosting a team of a already non-existing country a so-called team "Representation of Czechs and Slovaks" this was the name under which this team was allowed to play the 1994 WC qualifier, and if they would have won in Belgium this match they would have qualified to USA 1 and half year after the end of Czechoslovakia lol. This was the official match number 499 of Czechoslovakian Football history. one goal and the history would be rewritten by a team playing the world cup despite the country they represented did not existed. Bratislava May 1992, Ice Hockey World Championships hosted by a country which was existing for the very last year in Czechoslovakia The Most emotional match. Bronze Medal Game. Czechoslovakia - Switzerland 5-2 A last historical joint medal and a lot of tears and sadness... and + a special bonus and one of the unforgettable memorable moments of the last historic mega derby "czechoslovak el classico" Slavia Prague-Sparta Prague in the last historic Czechoslovakia Football league season played under incredible weather conditions, the highlight from 0:47

Just go back to Church Slavonic and admit that the last 1000 years has all been a terrible mistake.

Me after realising what you meant: It's Wumo5690. Wumo was already taken.

Wouldn't that open a tiny possibility of Canada failing to qualify for the Worlds? I don't think WCF can survive that.

Me and Agger's inboxes are going to be overloaded with PMs tomorrow.

Just want to point out that @Wumo didn’t deny having magic mushrooms...

And now I wonder whether there are words in Slovak that is normal but became a profanity/negative words in Czech? Indonesian and Malay have a lot of these words, and sometimes it caused some trouble for travelers from both countries. For example: Dadah Indonesian: This word is used when you ask little kids to wave goodbye to someone else ("C'mon, dadah to grandma before we leave") Malay: narcotics Butuh Indonesian: need Malay: d*ck Pusing Indonesian: dizzy Malay: turn (left or right) Banci: Indonesian: drag queens Malay: census Seronok: Indonesian: Lewd Malay: Fun Also there is the word awak which means "you" in Malay but in West Sumatra it means "I" (other regions use different words). Imagine if someone from Malaysia comes to West Sumatra....

Same with Croatian and Slovenian. Slovenians though allegedly understand us more easily than we understand them. Also Croatian with Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin... But these languages are very similar obviously.

Putin visits KSA , the Russian anthem at 0:22" .............. what a massacre , look at the face of Putin at 0:33

and is usually said to be 90% intelligible (for the formal/standard language) since it came from the same root. But from what I observe nowadays, younger generation in Indonesia will have more difficulty in understanding Malay because there are many vocabularies that is now become rarely used by them. And with more Indonesians understanding English, they just won't bother to think about trying to understand Malay when they happen to meet Malaysians. Side story: As I am Chinese descent with ancestry from Fujian Province, I speak Hokkien. And I found out that even Hokkien speakers in Indonesia has different variations, where sometimes the difference in the vocabulary can be quite big. The Medan Hokkien (the one I spoke) is mostly intelligible with Penang Hokkien in Malaysia, which means it's quite isolated compared to other variants. My father once arranged to meet a Singaporean businessman and my father thought that as they both can speak Hokkien it is alright (he barely understands English or Mandarin). When they start discussing, it turns out my father doesn't totally understand what the Singaporean was saying. Luckily I was there, and suddenly became the middleman between them lol

We do encounter a number of problems with respect to the vast diversity of languages. We not only have many different languages, we have languages from different Language families (Indo-European, Dravidian and Sino-Tibetan). Plus, there is regional/cultural pride associated with these languages and so it creates even more problems. But, by and large we manage because of 1) large influence of Sanskrit on almost all the languages 2) large population understanding Hindi (which is basically the common term used for the various dialects spoken in North India) and 3) growing influence of English. Also, it is quite common for people to have basic knowledge of atleast 3-4 languages (Hindi, English, their mother tongue and languages close to their mother tongue). For example, I can converse/write/read Hindi, Gujarati and English easily. I can read and understand Sanskrit with some effort. My mother tongue is Marwari, which is a sub-dialect of Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, in which I can converse easily. During my stay in Bengaluru, I picked up key words of Kannada and can read albeit with a lot of effort. I can also understand almost all the dialects of Hindi. Can understand the gist of what is being said in Marathi/Punjabi. I think we have been the most diverse participant of TISC in terms of language. To the best of my knowledge, till date we have entered songs in Hindi, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bengali, English, Malayalam. And this year's entry is a curious mix of Konkani and Portuguese.

Oh great, Kuzmina's retirement from the relays can be dealt with pretty alright then.

@hckosice First of all, this is my personal experience. Speaking: I will say not all Swedish is easy to understand. Personally I can understand most Swedes from the Southern part of the country. It's become more difficult the more north you travel up in Sweden. I do understand most Norwegian, but some of the dialects in the Western parts of the country are very difficult to understand. Written: It's much easier to understand written Swedish and Norwegian for me. Swedish is probably a bit more diffucult to understand written than Norwegian. However, two points about written Norwegian. Norwegian can be separated into two categories: Bokmål (Book language) and Nynorsk (New Norwegian). Bokmål is 95-100% intelligible with Danish, but Nynorsk is much lower. It has to be said that most written Norwegian is in Bokmål, so I have no issue reading it. The other Nordic languages, Finnish, (I'm not really sure if it is considered a Nordic language officially. Uralic langugage is probably more correct), Icelandic, Faroese are so faaaar from Danish. Though, I can pronounce Eyjafjallajökull correctly according to those Icelanders I have spoken with

Burkina Faso are interested in hosting the 2027 African Games.

The end of the voting window comes closer The national juries have one day left to submit their votes to the host jury if they want to receive a ticket to Denmark. The deadline is Friday, October 18th, 22:00 (CEST) These jurors have yet to submit their votes: @konig @LDOG @KingOfTheRhinos @titicow @vinipereira @stefanbg @Canada4thewin @intoronto @Function CR Lee @dcro @Jan Linha@thepharoah @Finnator123 @Bohemia @Janakis @Fly_like_a_don @OlympicIRL @Gianlu33 @Werloc @Glen @mrv86 @Ionoutz24 @heywoodu @Wanderer @rybak @kungshamra71 @IoNuTzZ @DaniSRB @justony @Belle @amen09 @Olympian1010 The host jury hopes to receive the votes from these jurors soon. The more the merrier.

She competes in jumping. She made a couple of Spanish teams over the years (including 2014 WEG), so she probably stands an outside chance of being selected next year. I believe she married a Mexican rider recently.

Definitely, because Cali is in Colombia

@Gianlu33 Hola works for CCTV-5, so you can watch the games if you find yourself wanting to. They post full replays of matches as well.

Teams that will represent Brazil in Tokyo: Men's: Alison/Álvaro Filho and Evandro/Bruno Schmidt Women's: Ágatha/Duda and Ana Patrícia/Rebecca In Men's, 3/4 athletes that were in Rio will return do the Games (Álvaro is the only one who didn't participate previously). Current champions Alison and Bruno are back, although in different teams. In Women's, only Ágatha (silver in Rio) is an olympic athlete. Curiously enough, she was "rejected" by her partner Barbara who allegedly thought Ágatha would be too old to play in Tokyo. Likewise, Evandro was rejected by his partner André after the World title in 2017, because André thought he would stand a better chance of Olympic qualification with another player. Now both Barbara and André will watch the Olympics at home

Yes Friday, October 18th 22:00 National Jury Voting Window Closed

Really great start to the competition for with Shannon McCurley winning silver in the scratch only our 4th medal at the European elite track championships!

First “livestream of CCTV-5 I found...was an online porn channel

This is the picture the official website shows: This setting is easily something I would expect from a gay porn movie.

Here you go my friend Just remember. Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day

I found a photo of the UEC accountant when Apeldoorn was applying.

World Games silver medalist Tamara O'Brien has died aged 22 from cancer.

Custom Made, 2000 Olympic champion in eventing, passed away at 34.

Rosie Maclennan broke her ankle...